Staff Training: Building Capacity for Compassion

Review what you’ve learned in Weeks 1-3 to create a 9-10 slide PowerPoint presentation that you would be able to present to your colleagues/staff to equip them to work with families of children with autism in a compassionate way. Include the following:

Title slide.

What is autism?

• Brief history.
• Current issues.
• Screening and diagnosis.
• Early intervention process.
• Compassionate care.
• Resources for families.
• References slide. (At minimum, each of this week’s readings should be cited at least once.)
• Remember that slides should be succinct, readable, and visually appealing for an audience. Make sure your presentation is 9-10 slides long. Do no go over 10 slides. Review the following or another resource your choice.
• Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations [PPTX].

Provide speaker’s notes (script) under each slide, writing what you would say to your audience to discuss the slide.

This is not a presentation on intervention. Rather, it should be a presentation on general autism knowledge and general process for early intervention, with a heavy emphasis on compassionate care. Intervention will come later in this course. For this presentation, consider how would you prepare your colleagues or staff to effectively and compassionately support families of children with autism as they navigate the beginning steps in diagnosis and early intervention.

• Overall, your assignment submission will be assessed on the following criteria:

Explain relevant characteristics, history, and current issues related to autism.

Summarize screening, diagnosis, and early intervention processes for autism.

Explain resources and strategies to help provide compassionate care for individuals with autism and their families.

Convey purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences.